Watching the first season of Ash vs. Evil Dead awakened me to one thing I don't like about The Walking Dead. I've been watching The Walking Dead since it's premiere and never put it together that I'd like it a lot more if it had just a touch of levity. Sure, you get a couple off-hand smiles here and there, but mostly that show is as serious as death.
I'm not saying I want it to do a 180 and all of a sudden be Big Bang Theory with zombies, but maybe take your foot off that serious gas pedal a little bit. As the ratings show, this is MY problem, not the show's. It goes back to the same reason I haven't watched Sons of Anarchy or Breaking Bad and wasn't crazy about my brief experience with Mad Men: I like comedy. Those shows, along side The Walking Dead, don't offer much in the way of fun times.
Ash vs. Evil Dead by comparison is comedy first, gore and deadites second. As much as I'd like to see the two show's crossover, Bruce Campbell's patented one-liners would go against the grain of every part of The Walking Dead. You either take the Bruce Campbell out of Ash, or or bring the funny out of Daryl Dixon and Carol Peletier which would result in the writers having to do some serious character acrobatics.
Both shows are amazing on their own merit, and this is by no means a contest, but embracing my proclivities for humor, I'd take Ash over Rick Grimes 9 out of 10 times.
-Gint
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